Ages 4-7
Ladybugs, Tornadoes and Swirling Galaxies: English Language Learners Discover their World Through Inquiry
Brad Buhrow & Anne Upczak Garcia
Foreword by Anne Goudvis
Written by primary school teachers working in a diverse bilingual school, this practical and informative book will show how to blend comprehension instruction and ESL best practices to explore enquiry as a literacy pathway for English language learners.
As teachers and students engage in learning the science and social studies curriculum they also discover multiple ways to communicate. The book is full of photographs of student artwork—including a colour insert—that reveal the children's process of enquiry, and demonstrate the important role of art as a sign system in ESL literacy and language acquisition.
The authors provide explicit detail on the process they use as they move step-by-step with pupils from personal narrative through to the process of independent enquiry. Appendices in Spanish and English help to round out this informative and charming resource.
Review
...an engaging and vital resource for teachers endeavouring to address the needs not just of ELLs, but of all students in today's increasingly diverse schools. The cornerstone of literacy development for second language learners is the skilful mediation of conceptual knowledge through visual imagery and oral interaction, coupled with the representation of these ideas in text. As Brad and Anne describe their classrooms and their teaching, we see myriad examples of this in action, as well as the rationale behind it.
Nancy L. Commins, author of Linguistic Diversity and Teaching
Contents
Introduction; Creating a Classroom Environment; Creating a Culture of Thinking; Telling Our Stories; Launching Readers; Fostering Questions and Gathering Information; Guided Inquiry; Moving Into Independent Inquiry-Keep the Questions Coming!; Outcomes: Kids' Work on Display; Investigating Content Topics; Using Assessment to Differentiate Instruction; Appendix; Glossary; References; Index
2006 204 pp paperback
978-1-57110-400-7
£19.99
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